Emily K. Abel

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The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps

Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century

Rutgers University Press

The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps explores how ideals considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be reconfigured to respond to shifts in culture and society as well as to new understanding of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual identity through a study of the popular Farm & Wilderness camps. To illustrate this change, Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson draw on over forty interviews with former campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book tells a story of progressive ideals, crisis of leadership, childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential American summer camp.
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Prelude to Hospice

Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families

Rutgers University Press

Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care, including the relationships between doctors and patients at a time when a growing number of patients began to feel emboldened to challenge medical authority, demanding information about diagnosis and treatment and participation in decision-making.  

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles

Rutgers University Press

Emily K. Abel shows how the association of the disease with “tramps” during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups. In addition, public health officials sought not only to restrict the entry of Mexicans (the majority of immigrants) during the 1920s but also to expel them during the 1930s. 

            Abel’s revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic.

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Suffering in the Land of Sunshine

A Los Angeles Illness Narrative

Rutgers University Press

The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient’s perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window into the experience of sickness.

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